Mayor of Nashville from 1999 - 2007, after leaving office Bill Purcell served as the Founding Dean of the College of Public Service and Urban Affairs at Tennessee State University and then became the Director of the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Lecturer there. Since returning to Nashville he teaches the undergraduate course Cities in the 21st Century at Vanderbilt University where he is an Adjunct Professor of Public Policy. From 1986 to 1996 Purcell was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, serving as Majority Leader from 1990 until 1996. He is a partner in the law firm of Farmer Purcell White & Lassiter, PLLC in Nashville and serves as Chair of the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington, DC.

Join YPG to cheer on the Nashville Sounds Thursday, April 26th at 6:35 PM! The first 10 YPG members to RSVP will attend for FREE.

Once complimentary tickets have been distributed members will have the opportunity to purchase tickets at a discounted rate of $15. We have reserved 20 seats in the popular Power Alley section (4-top tables) in front of the Band Box Bar. After that is reached, the price will become $30 per ticket.

Event registration opens this Thursday, March 29 at 8:30 AM (we’ll send you the details then). Ticket sales will close for this event on Thursday, April 12th.

Note: This offer is only open to YPG members. Should you receive a free ticket and are no longer able to attend, you must let YPG know immediately so that your ticket may be given to someone else.

Tom Ingram returned to The Ingram Group – the firm he founded in 1983 – after serving seven years as Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander and Staff Director of the Senate Republican Conference. While in the Senate, Ingram also founded the Senate Bipartisan Chiefs of Staff organization that survives to this day with more than 60 of the Senate’s 100 chiefs of staff participating on a regular basis. In March 2010, under Ingram’s leadership, The Ingram Group opened the Group's Washington office. Tom was a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean and the former Nashville Banner and has been at the epicenter of politics and government – in Tennessee and Washington – for more than three decades. In addition to being a part of all of Alexander’s campaigns and serving as Governor Alexander’s deputy and chief of staff, Ingram also oversaw winning political campaigns for Senator Fred Thompson, Governor Don Sundquist, Senator Bob Corker, and Governor Bill Haslam.